Konrad Gallei

Konrad Gallei (* 1949 in Berlin ) is an adventurer, folding boat specialist, multiple book author , travel journalist and lecturer for log cabin construction and wilderness life. He spent a large part of his youth in Berlin and decided at a young age to live in and with nature.

He learned in 1981 at the B. Allen Mackie School of Logbuilding in Prince George the traditional log cabin construction based on the Canadian model. With this knowledge he was drawn to the forests of Canada , where he built his own log cabin and lived for five years.

Today Konrad Gallei lives on his six-hectare cultural farm in Haunetal , which he manages from an ecological point of view. There he teaches interested parties the art of building logs and life in the wilderness.

career

Konrad Gallei was a mountaineer in subarctic areas from 1968 to 1971, in 1972 he took part in a mountaineering expedition in Svalbard, which resulted in a television production by ARD two years later . Through his long expeditions with the dog sled he was able to achieve successes in the largest dog sled race in Europe in 1975 and 1976.

In 1978 he went on a kayak expedition along the east coast of Greenland. The following year he hiked across the Hardanger-Vidda on Indian snowshoes. In 1983 he undertook a search expedition in the Greenland Ice Sheet.

From 1980 to 1985, he led an autonomous life in his hand-built log cabin in the Yukon Territory in northwestern Canada. He then led a kayak expedition on the west coast of Svalbard. In 1987 he took a ride through the largest wilderness in Europe, and from 1989 to 1995 he led folding boat tours in Scandinavia. In 1982 he lived in Berlin and intended to move back to his log cabin in Canada, but was looking for a woman to go there before him. The book Blockhausleben was then created with and about this woman .

Publications

• Polar explorer today (self-published)
• South Norway (Badenia Verlag)
• Sled dogs (Philler-Verlag)
• Log cabin life (Frederking & Thaler)
• East Greenland (Badenia-Verlag)
• Under the spell of the Arctic (Pietsch-Verlag)
• Riding through Lapland (Pietsch-Verlag)
• Book series - Water hiking in Europe (Edition Gallei & Biczysko)

TV films and reports

• "Svalbard - still an adventure today?" (SFB and ARD)
• "Kayak trip to the Eskimos" (N3)
• "I think it is pure madness ..." (RIAS-Berlin)

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Gallei in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of the adventurer Konrad Gallei
• Dropout project with mentor Konrad Gallei
• Seminars for those interested in log houses